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Gravenstine v. Feger

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 15, 1886

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1886-03-15

3, of Philadelphia County to review a judgment for defendant in an action of replevin. This action was brought by George T. Gravenstine, the administrator of Horace H. Walter, against Horace’s former guardian, Joseph M. Feger, to recover a certificate of $3,000 which had been placed in the guardian’s hands in trust for Horace. In 1879 Horace had died a minor, and Feger filed his account as guardian. At the audit Gravenstine appeared and claimed the certificate.

Relies on Appeal of Gravenstine

Reargument ordered · Decided 1886-03-15

¶1Opinion by

Mr. Justice Paxson:

¶2Whatever view we may take of the rulings of the. court below, we are not satisfied with the result. If we affirm this judgment, the plaintiff will practically have been denied a hearing. When he appealed from the decree of the orphans’ court of Berks county, it was held that he had no standing, and his appeal was *31dismissed upon that ground. See Gravenstine’s Appeal, 2 Pennyp. 61.

¶3Now the court below decides, in the action of replevin which he brought for the certificate in question, that he is concluded by the decree in Berks county. Fortunately, the certificate is still in the hands of Feger, the guardian, where it will remain until the controversy is decided.

¶4In order that the whole question may be considered together,, we now order a reargument of both Gravenstine’s Appeal and of the case in hand. The particular point in Gravenstine’s Appeal to which we wish to call attention upon the reargument is the standing of the appellant in that case. It was assumed that Feger was a testamentary trustee and not a guardian, and that the estate for distribution was not that of the minor, but of his-mother; and that the alleged guardian was claiming adversely to her estate.

¶5These are matters as to which we desire a further argument and a fuller presentation of the facts, and to that end we now order a writ of certiorari to issue in Gravenstine’s Appeal to' bring up the record in that case.

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